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[spazchicken]

Teach him/her how to play Nash in SFV instead.

lol I don't know. I'd want them to actually be good with the character.

 

[Firemind]

i mean twitch chat beat pokemon

Spoiler

eventually

 

[sungahymn]

Sure, but don't count on them beating it.

 

[cj_iwakura]

Forge her in the fires of adversity. Buy her SMT IV.

But really, go for it.

 

[Mihael Mello Keehl]

Yall beat the game when yall was 3? I know thats a damn lie

 

[StoneFox]

I got Pokemon Yellow when I was five and it actually helped improve my reading a ton. It depends on their reading level, but pokemon games are designed to be very kid-friendly, and even if they don't know every word they can still have fun playing it just as every kid I knew did.

In fact, many words like absorb, antidote and fainted were words I didn't understand but I was able to figure out via context. Kids are pretty smart.

 

[Firemind]

just tell her not to pick the fire starter

 

[Renmyra]

You don't even need to be able to read. I played through Yellow in spanish as a kid. You just need to identify what words do what. Not my first Pokemon though so YMMV.

 

[SeppOCE]

My first game was Pokemon Yellow at age 4. Not sure how the later titles are to grasp. For me the hardest thing was taking weeks to figure out you could move to the right side of Viridian to pick up Oaks parcel haha

 

[Wamb0wneD]

I played my first when I was 6 and a half and I have to say that I had no problems. It was the very first Pokemon game though and a new more bloated entry with all those mechanics and systems might be a bit too much.

I would say no, I have a simillarly aged kid. Text heavy games are unbearable because I have to sit there and read most things. Give it another year.

Maybe the kid likes reading in contrast to yours? Though as mentioned above, maybe the first one would be better simply because they have less complicated mechanics.

 

[superdeluxe]

My 6 year old was playing it.

 

[oneils]

Teach him rock, paper, scissors. If he can learn that he can probably handle Pokémon.

 

[AzureSkies]

I played Yellow at the age of 5-6, I'm sure she'll be fine.

 

[balohna]

I started to "get" RPGs around age 7. Before that I would rent them and didn't know wtf to do or whate leveling up meant. Earthbound cracked it for me, with the included guide explaining everything I needed to know.

 

[True Fire]

Keep them away from Sun/Moon. It’s basically an interactive novel.

 

[Drayco21]

That is the target audience for Pokemon. I played my most Pokemon-heavy days from 4 to about 10.